Example sentences for: longman

How can you use “longman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected—including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).

  • If we can sort out all the details here—no mean task—it emerges that W9 's vocabulary entries include both what I earlier called main entries (like watershed ) and what I called subentries (like waterless in CED ). But it appears that Longman's headwords are only those that are, or introduce, main entries.

  • (All name-based verbs given as examples in this article are included in the OED2 , the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang or the Longman Register of New Words unless otherwise stated.)

  • Longman Webster depth of column 50 picas 52 picas width of column 67mm 72mm characters/line 70 lines/column 104 characters total (approx.)

  • See Jere Longman, Among the Heroes-United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back (Harper- Collins, 2002), p.


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